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ADVANCE DIRECTIVES
• Advance Directive Definitions
• "Be Prepared"
• Do You Need an Advance Directive?
• Noncompliance with Advance Directives
• Protecting Yourself and Your Family
• Protective Medical Decisions Document

ALASKA

"ARTIFICIAL FEEDING" (See FOOD AND FLUIDS)

ARIZONA

ASSISTED SUICIDE AND COST CONTAINMENT

ASSISTED SUICIDE & DEATH WITH DIGNITY: Past, Present & Future

ASSISTED SUICIDE - IMPACT ON MINORITIES AND THE POOR

ASSISTED SUICIDE: Not for Adults only?
Proposals for permitting euthanasia and assisted suicide for children and teens

ASSISTED SUICIDE - REASONS
• "'We never say no;' The right-to-die movement abandons pretense"

"ASSISTED SUICIDE: The Continuing Debate" (139 K)

AUSTRALIA

BOOKS AND AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS
• Deadly Compassion relates the tragic death of Ann Humphry, the co-founder of the Hemlock Society, and the dark side of the euthanasia movement around the world.
• Euthanasia: False Light is a 14-minute award winning video that raises thought provoking questions about euthanasia.
• Forced Exit offers chilling evidence of just how powerful and dangerous the death culture in America has become and offers a clear-eyed, realistic exploration of one of the most important and wrenching ethical issues of our time.
• Power over Pain: How to Get the Pain Control You Need (contact International Task Force for information and availability.)

CALIFORNIA

CANADA

CARING FRIENDS

CHILDREN and TEENS
Proposals for permitting euthanasia and assisted suicide for children and teens

COMPLICATIONS
Documented fact sheet about the problems associated with assisted suicide

CONNECTICUT

COST CONTAINMENT
• Killing patients proposed as cost cutting (Review of Freedom to Die) (4/99)
• Assisted Suicide and Cost Containment

COURT CASES (Also see individual cases by name)

ENGLAND

EUTHANASIA, ASSISTED SUICIDE & HEALTH CARE DECISIONS: PROTECTING YOURSELF & YOUR FAMILY
• Table of Contents
• Part 1
• Part 2

"EUTHANASIA: FALSE LIGHT" (video)

EXOO

FACT SHEETS
• Advance Directives
Advance Directive Definitions
Protective Medical Decisions Document

• Florida
Facts about the 1997 challenge to Florida's law against assisted suicide

• Holland
Facts about euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands

• Kevorkian
Activities, background and goals of Jack Kevorkian

• Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law
Background and continuing information about Oregon's law permitting assisted suicide

• Statistics
Statistics related to death, dying, euthanasia and assisted suicide

• Words, Words, Words
Terms used in the euthanasia debate - their use and abuse
This is a 31 page document

FOOD AND FLUIDS
Includes Questions and Answers about "Artificial Feeding" and information about specific cases

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Answers to most common questions

FUNDING
Dying for the Cause: Foundation funding for the "right-to-die" movement (View as PDF)

GONZALES v. OREGON
Facts, overview, amicus curiae briefs.

HAWAII

HEALTH CARE REFORM

HEMLOCK and CARING FRIENDS

HOLLAND

"HOW TO"
Methods to commit suicide promoted by euthanasia activists. (Also see: Caring Friends)

INTERNATIONAL TASK FORCE UPDATE
Full Text of Updates from 1/96 through current edition

IRELAND

KEVORKIAN
(Background, goals, activities, and known victims of Jack Kevorkian

LIBRARY
• Assisted Suicide and Cost Containment

• Reports
When Death is Sought 1994 NY State Task Force Report on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
When Death is Sought 1997 Supplement

• Suicide Prevention
Suicide Awareness Information about suicide and depression

• Zurich Declaration Activists declare "distress" is justification for induced death (10/98)

LINKS to Disability Rights, Government, Law, News, Pain Control

Living Will (See: Advance Directives)

MAINE

"METHODS" to commit suicide promoted by euthanasia activists. (Also see: Caring Friends)

MICHIGAN

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

MINORITIES AND THE POOR
Inequity in health care and its implications for assisted suicide.

MONTANA

NEW HAMPSHIRE

NITSCHKE

ORDER FORM for INTERNATIONAL TASK FORCE MATERIALS

OREGON

OREGON v. ASHCROFT

PATIENT COMFORT AND CONTROL ACT

POWER OVER PAIN: How to Get the Pain Control You Need

PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH ASSISTED SUICIDE

PROTECTIVE MEDICAL DECISIONS DOCUMENT

Schiavo (See: Food and Fluids)

SHOW AND TELL
Assisted Suicide Activists Push Gadgets, Masks and Gas Devices

SINGER, PETER

STATISTICS

SWITZERLAND

UNITED STATES
• Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide proposals (2007)
• Euthanasia and Assisted-Suicide Measures in the United States (1991-2006).

UNITED STATES SENATE TESTIMONY (5/25/06)
• Witness list
• Coleman testimony
• Marker testimony
• Smith testimony

UPDATE (ITF Newsletter)

VERMONT

WASHINGTON

WISCONSIN

WORDS USED IN ASSISTED SUICIDE DEBATE
• "When Killing Yourself Isn't Suicide" Word games played in assisted-suicide debate (from National Review)
• "Words, Words, Words" Originally appeared in Duquesne Law Review as "The Art of Verbal Engineering."

WYOMING